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From: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>,
	John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Nate Williams wrote:
> > 
> > You don't *have* to use volatile in C, and the addition of the volatile
> > keyword came out of C++ work.  We can blame it on C++.  (I have a friend
> > on the C++ standards committee, and we love to give him grief about what
> > a joke the language is.)
> 
> Actually, there are situations where you _must_ use volatile
> to prevent register optimization of variables.
> 

That's a compiler problem, not a language feature.  


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